Farm-gate.



.G. W. BLAZER.

FARM GATE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25, 1914.

Patented, Mar. 9, 1915.

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GEORGE WESLEY BLAZER, 0F GOPIPEROPOLIS, CALIFORNIA.

FARM-GATE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 9, 12115.

Application filed June 25, 1914. Serial No. 847,277.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BLAZER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Copperopolis, in the county of Calaveras and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Farm-Gates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to gates, and particularly to a slidable and turnable farm gate.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a gate of sufficient length to transversely project across a wide roadway or entrance, the gate being designed for movement so as to permit travel over one side or half of the road or entrance without being moved to entirely clear the road.

It is a particular object of the present invention to provide a gate whereby a broad road or entrance-way may be effectually closed, the gate being so mounted that it may be easily operated either to open half of the road, or may be further moved so as to permit the use of the entire width of the roadway.

A further object of the invention is to provide a gate structure of substantial design in which a gate is hung for turning movement and for relative sliding movement with ease and facility.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective of the gate which has been partly opened with a sliding movement relative to its supports. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the gate turned to the fullyopened position.

2 is a stationary post toward which and from a gate 3 is movable to close the road or entrance-way 1; the gate having sliding and turning movement between diagonally offset vertical gate posts 5, which are suitably braced from their top by a brace or tension rod 6. Ihe ate 3 is slidably mounted upon a stirrup having a roller 8 on which one of the rails of the gate runs; the stirrup 7 being swiveled upon its pivot 9 in one of a number of horizontal brackets 10 secured to the diagonally opposite and offset posts 5.

In vertical alinement with the stirrup pivot 9 are upper and lower pivots 11 and 12 respectively to which are connected the convergent arms of a hanger 13, the forward contracted end of which is bifurcated at 14: to straddle the uppermost rail of the gate, whlch rail runs upon a roller 15, journaled on a transverse pin 16, connecting the arms of the hanger.

'Ihe hanger 13 is of such a length preferably as to extend toward the center of the roadway 4, and the gate 3 is slidably supported upon the hanger roller 15 and the stirrup roller 8, the outer end of the gate being slidable from the stationary keeper post 2 toward the hanger roller 15, as indicated in Fig. 1, to permit passage along or over one side of the roadway 4 without necessitating the full opening of the gate; this being desirable, for instance, to admit pedestrians or to provide for the movement of small vehicles over the roadway.

In the event it is desired to drive large vehicles, or to drive cattle through the gateway, then the gate 3 may be disengaged from the keeper post 2 and swung with and by its hanger 13 to a position at right angles, as shown in Fig. 2, to the keeper post 2, thereby fully opening the roadway for egress and ingress.

It will be seen that by mounting the gate for sliding movement upon the rollers 8 and 15 that the gate may be easily slidably moved, and when the gate has been shifted to the half open position it is then substantially counterbalanced on the central or stirrup roller 8, and while guided and supported by the hanger 13 may be easily turned into parallel position with the roadway to clear the latter.

It is one of the important features of this invention that the gate is so mounted that it is not only readily and easily slid on the rollers, but is also easily turned about the pivots 9, 11 and 12 on which the gate is substantially balanced when its end is pushed back toward the bifurcation 14. in the hanger.

Another important feature is that by arranging the pivots 9, 11 and 12 in a common axis and midway between the supporting posts 5 they occupy a position in the central vertical plane of the gate, and this, with its supporting hanger 13 is thus held and supported without any twisting of the gate structure and the hanger, because of their movement about a common axis.

Having thus described my invention, what I I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: V

In combination with a keeper post and a pair of spaced diagonally oflset posts, a gate mounted in the space between said posts, brackets connecting the posts and disposed at the ends and central of the lengths of the posts, a stirrup pivoted to the central bracket between the ends of the latter and straddling one of the gate rails and having a roller connected to its free end on which said gate rail rides to support the gate against downward movement, and a hanger for the gate consisting of an upper and a lower bar, said bars being convergent at their front ends and at their rear ends being pivoted to the respective upper and lower brackets, said hanger having a roller at its front end which rides on said rail, the two pivotal points of the hanger and the pivotal point of the stirrup being disposed in the same Vertical plane.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE WESLEY BLAZER.

Witnesses:

T. M. BLAZER, W. HOWELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtain d for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. j Washington. I). 0." 

